Dependency Walker reports IESHIMS DLL and WER DLL missing

Question

On a Windows XP Professional SP3 with Internet Explorer 8 box  when I run Dependency Walker on an executable of mine it reports that  IESHIMS DLL and WER DLL can t be found    Do I need these DLL s  Where can I get them    I believe they are supposed to located in  C  Windows System32 Wer dll   and C  Program Files Internet Explorer Ieshims dll

User · Accepted Answer

ieshims dll is an artefact of Vista 7 where a shim DLL is used to proxy certain calls  such as CreateProcess  to handle protected mode IE  which doesn t exist on XP  so it is unnecessary  wer dll is related to Windows Error Reporting and again is probably unused on Windows XP which has a slightly different error reporting system than Vista and above   I would say you shouldn t need either of them to be present on XP and would normally be delay loaded anyway

User · Answer

1   Do I need these DLL s    It depends since Dependency Walker is a little bit out of date and may report the wrong dependency         Where can I get them       most dlls can be found at https   www dll-files com     I believe they are supposed to located in C  Windows System32 Wer dll and C  Program Files Internet Explorer Ieshims dll   For me leshims dll can be placed at C  Windows System32   Context  windows 7 64bit

User · Answer

I had this issue recently and I resolved it by simply rolling IE8 back to IE7   My guess is that IE7 had these files as a wrapper for working on Windows XP  but IE8 was likely made to work with Vista 7 so it removed the files because the later editions just don t use the shim

User · Answer

I was having this error w Citect     Microsoft Visual C   2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package MFC Security Update has the missing files

[internet-explorer-8] Dependency Walker reports IESHIMS.DLL and WER.DLL missing?

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